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of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

Blacks have...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

The years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...